Health Law Workshop: Jennifer Prah Ruger

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Presentation

Topic: “Global Health Justice and Governance”

About the Presenter

Jennifer Prah Ruger is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is the author of Health and Social Justice (OUP, 2009), developing a theory of justice and health, the health capability paradigm. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her forthcoming book, Global Health Justice and Governance (OUP, in press), which advances a theory of global health justice and governance called provincial globalism. She received a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics and a Donaghue Investigator Award in ethics and economics of health disparities. Dr. Ruger has published work on the ethics and economics of health policy and public health, including equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health. Her research is conducted nationally and internationally, including work in India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Africa, South Korea, the United States, and Vietnam.

Dr. Ruger received a bachelor’s degree in the honors program in political economy from the University of California-Berkeley, master’s degrees from Oxford University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Yale University, and a doctoral degree from Harvard University.